Lace-trimmed tanks shimmered beneath the vaulted ceilings of the Musée Rodin as Dior’s Fall 2026 menswear show commenced. Creative director Jonathan Anderson called this season’s Dior man Le Flâneur. He’s a “gentleman stroller,” coasting down Avenue Montaigne. But Anderson’s version felt less like Baudelaire’s idle observer and more like a young aristocrat getting up to no good.
Moments before the show, the house released a statement naming Paul Poiret as a key reference. Poiret, who has been dubbed Le Magnifique (The Magnificent) by his devotees, was fashion’s great early twentieth-century disrupter, even among peers like Gabrielle Chanel. He rejected the corset, dismantled rigid silhouettes, and infused Parisian couture with colour, theatricality and a few too many debauched affairs that I won’t go into….but suggest you read up on. That sense of rebellion ran through this Dior Fall 2026 show, titled Aristo Youth and soundtracked by New Jersey-born artists Mk.gee. The opening looks: beaded, lace-trimmed tanks in purple, spring green, and mauve, worn with white-washed low-waisted jeans and Dior belts. Shoes ranged from flat red slippers to patent leather heeled boots, alongside puff-laced high-top sneakers.
It was Anderon’s second menswear collection for Dior, one that balanced bravery and a reverence for the house’s formal codes. Bar jackets were cropped high while tailcoats skimmed lean trousers. Bags were referenced literary covers — Dracula, Les Fleurs du Mal. Bombers came wrapped like capes, and coats were structured and finished with exaggerated fur cuffs.
